AT THE HEART OF A TIGER: Clemenceau and his world 1841-1929.
Pp. xiv+620, 24 plates, appendix, select bibliography and sources, index; thick med. 8vo; black boards, spine lettered in white; dust wrapper, a trifle foxed on reverse; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, the upper hinge staring and slightly glue marked, edges of leaves lightly foxed; Macmillan, London, 1993. First edition. *'What Winston Churchill was to the Second World War, Georges Clemenceau was to the First. In the eyes of posterity, he is the "Tiger", the unyielding and defiant leader who in a single year turned the Allied Forces, bled white in their trenches and riven by mutiny, into the victors of 1918' [wrapper blurb]. Item #176510
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